tmux, dotfiles, and Text Mode (Changelog Interviews #73)

Wynn sat down with Brian Hogan and Josh Clayton to talk about tmux, dotfiles, and the joys of text mode.

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Featuring:

• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Brian Hogan speaker, trainer, and author of _Tmux: Productive, Mouse Free development, out now from PragProg.


• Josh Clayton is a developer at Thoughtbot.


• Factory Girl - fixture replacement for Ruby.


• tmux is a terminal multiplexer similar to GNU screen.


• tmuxinator helps you manage tmux sessions.


• taskpaper.vim - Vim interface for Taskpaper.


• Josh’s dotfiles are extensive.


• A patch to reattach to user namespace in tmux.


• Palette lets you write Vim color schemes with Ruby


• Evergreen - Run Jasmine JavaScript unit tests, integrate them into Ruby applications


• The latest iTerm2 ships with tmux integration.


• tslime.vim is a simple vim script to send portion of text from a vim buffer to a running tmux session.


• vim-turbux - Ruby testing with tmux.


• Justin Smestad turned Wynn onto tmux for pair programming.


• Derick Bailey from Watch Me Code.


• pair.io gives you a one-button, collaboration-friendly dev environment for your GitHub repo.


• Jesse Dearing is the unnamed “DevOps guy” at Pure Charity.


• Thoughtbot has a company-wide dotfiles repo.


• Josh rolls his own Vim setup with Tim Pope’s pathogen.


• Brian uses TTYtter, is a terminal-based Twitter client, Wynn uses Earthquake.


• Josh likes irrsi for IRC.


• Brian likes Alpine over mutt for mail.


• Search GitHub for “tmux.conf.”


• Zach Holman says dotfiles are meant to be forked.


• Zach’s own dotfiles.


• Yan Pritzker’s dotfiles are opinionated.


• Josh says that if you don’t think your dotfiles are the best out there, you’re doing it wrong. (29:55)


• Joe Ferris at Thoughtbot inspired Josh’s dotfiles.


• Brian and Josh say Janus and oh-my-zsh are great to get started, but you need to understand your dotfiles.


• Wynn uses this shell function to list colors to put into his tmux config.


• Dotshare is web site to share dotfile configs plus screenshots.


• Pianobar is text-based command line interface for Pandora.


• Wynn uses shell.fm for Last.fm.


• Be sure and check out the Tmux Crash Course.

NEW: Humans Present: tmux a Thoughtbot Workshop.

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